As inflation soars, dream getaways to top tourist spots like Paris or Hawaii can set you back thousands—flights, hotels, and food adding up fast. But here’s the unexpected twist: deportations might just be your ticket to an exotic escape! Imagine skipping the hefty price tag and jetting off to El Salvador—for free! Sure, it’s a one-way trip, and you might not be sipping cocktails by choice, but with pristine beaches, vibrant culture, and no round-trip costs, could this be the ultimate budget travel loophole?
Trump’s Deportation Plan: Fascist or Vacation Hack?
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Don’t count on seeing any beaches if you’re the lucky winner of a one-way trip to El Salvador.
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I think the problem the democrats face is that of “ideas.” They keep floating “ideas” all the time. What the democrats need is ONE idea. And it doesn’t matter really what that ONE thing is, just as long as it has wide popularity and the democrats stay on message. Example: Nationalize Cable. I should be able to get local programming from Anchorage AND Tampa while sitting on a couch in Iowa. I should be able to find the totality of all programming that still survives all the way back to “Kukla, Fran, and Ollie” (an extraordinary program, by the way). The offerings should be voice-searchable. And none of that Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, “It canna be dun! I’d hafta divide by zero!” malarkey.
And when they’ve got that done? “Okay. We just got you universal cable. What’s next? Universal Dental!”
After four or five times around, even the nonvoters will have to admit, “Wow! You really can get what you want if you just show up and vote. We really should be demanding UBI and let’s just fold Dental into universal healthcare along with vision and mental health.”
“….(changing) national spending priorities to create a society that was better for most people” is called “socialism,” and it’s something that those who own the Democratic Party will never do. There’s a couple-three left political parties already, most notably The Green Party, which has a (somewhat skeletal) nationwide organization and pretty widespread ballot access, but, since we live in a political milieu in which only candidates and parties that can raise the kind of money you pretty much only get from taking corporate bribes, aka “campaign contributions” get taken seriously, the Greens have been declared irrelevant.
IMHO a system that has armored itself so thoroughly against reform can only change by breaking apart completely, something that, at this point, we seem to be well on the way to doing.
Giving everyone cable at a better rate? Bread and circuses. It’s time to USE that to an advantage.